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Summary
In the aftermath of a devastating fire, a prisoner is offered one chance at redemption in this haunting supernatural suspense from the author of USA Today bestseller, The Girl With All the Gifts .
Fellside is a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors. It's not the kind of place you'd want to end up. But it's where Jess Moulson could be spending the rest of her life.
It's a place where even the walls whisper.
And one voice belongs to a little boy with a message for Jess.
Will she listen?
Lose yourself in Fellside , M. R. Carey's chillingly atmospheric tale of addiction, revenge, and redemption.
Author Notes
Mike Carey was born in 1959 in Liverpool. He is the writer of comic books, novels, and films. Carey began his career at 2000 AD where he created the original series Th1rt3en and Carver Hale. For the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics Carey went on to write the entire run of the Eisner Award-nominated comic book Lucifer. He also wrote the original graphic novels The Sandman Presents: The Furies with John Bolton and Hellblazer: All His Engines with Leonardo Manco. He is the ongoing writer of X-Men: Legacy. In 2008 Carey worked on a number of different titles, including tie-ins to the "Secret Invasion" crossover storyline. In 2011 he wrote a crossover between X-Men Legacy and New Mutants titled Age of X.
In January 2014, he had another prose novel published which was titled The Girl With All The Gifts.It has been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2015 in the category of science fiction. It was released to critical acclaim and was announced to be made into a film, which would go by the name She Who Brings Gifts.
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Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Jess Moulson wanders in very dark places in this overwrought contemporary thriller from Carey (The Girl with All the Gifts). She doesn't remember the incident that leads to her trial for the murder of 10-year-old Alex Beech, because she was on heroin when she set afire the photos from her ongoing toxic relationship. She doesn't remember escalating to burning down her entire London apartment in an attempt to kill her boyfriend, but Alex, an upstairs neighbor, died in the blaze. Jess is sentenced to Fellside Prison, where she must wrestle with the question of her own culpability, try not to get tangled in the prison's internal drug business intrigues, and, unexpectedly, find that Alex, or what's left of him, may still have a job for her to do. Carey sustains an interesting concept at a high pitch of suspense until nearly the end, when the book implodes into melodrama as the plot becomes completely implausible. The denouement is the novel's lowest point, but the path to get there is taut, tense, and unusual. (Apr.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Library Journal Review
Jess Moulson is the newest inmate of Fellside, a prison in Yorkshire, after a fire she set while high on heroin killed a ten-year-old boy. She is being haunted by a spirit in the shape of the child she was convicted of killing, though the spirit tells her he was dead before the fire. Jess tries to work through the nests of mysteries and lies in an effort to save a few lost souls, including maybe her own. Carey's (The Girl with All the Gifts) details vary from the intricate descriptions of the prison's inner workings to a brief look into the mind of a self-harmer (cutter). Reader Finty Williams, better known as the voice of Angelina Ballerina, uses her extensive voice acting experience to give a different feel to each character. Verdict Carey brings nothing but quality and thrills all around. Highly recommended for fans of horror and the occult, legal and prison stories, and gothic fiction. ["Less a traditional ghost story than a send-up of the prison-industrial complex with a healthy dose of magic realism, this eerie tale is sure to hook crime fiction and horror lovers": LJ 3/15/16 starred review of the Orbit: -Hachette hc.]-Tristan M. Boyd, Austin, TX © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.